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Pestera Muierilor Petite Corona, 4 x 46 A Romanian cave site where Cro-Magnon remains were dated to over 30,000 years ago. The brand’s eastern frontier of Early Modern Human evidence.
Knuckle Dragger Petite Robusto, 4 x 52 The caricature of the prehistoric human, addressed directly. The cigar’s name is the correction.
Mandible Petite Gordo, 4½ x 60 The lower jaw — one of the diagnostic bones used to distinguish Cro-Magnon morphology from earlier hominin species.
Mode 5 Short Perfecto, 5 x 50 The blade-and-microblade technology that defined Cro-Magnon material culture. Sophisticated tools from a people we called primitive.
EMH Robusto Extra, 5 x 56 Early Modern Human. The technical term that replaces the colloquial one — and changes what the description names.
Anthropology Gran Corona, 5¾ x 46 The discipline that documents what the Cro-Magnon were actually doing — and corrects what was assumed.
Cranium Gran Toro, 6 x 54 The skull. Cro-Magnon 1, the type specimen, was the cranium found in Les Eyzies in 1868.
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Mastodon Petite Gordo Prensado, 4½ x 60P The Pleistocene megafauna the Cro-Magnon hunted. Gone now, except in the cave paintings.
EMH Sabre Tooth Robusto Extra Rayado, 5 x 56P Smilodon, the sabre-toothed cat that shared the Cro-Magnon’s landscape and competed with them for prey.
Breuil Panetela, 5½ x 37 Henri Breuil, the French archaeologist who documented the Upper Paleolithic cave paintings of Lascaux and elsewhere. The man who showed us what they made.
Gran Perfecto Gran Perfecto, 5 5/8 x 60 The figurado tapered at both ends — the most demanding shape in any roller’s repertoire. The portfolio’s recurring LE expression of each blend’s outer limits.
Blockhead Gran Toro Prensado, 6 x 54P Another caricature of primitive form. Named here, the way the brand names every misperception it intends to refute.
Venus Petite Salamone, 6½ x 56 The Venus figurines: small carved female forms found across Upper Paleolithic Europe. Among the earliest known representations of the human body.
Atlatl Lancero, 7 x 38 The spear-thrower. Cro-Magnon weapon technology that extended hunting range and provided the lethal advantage that took down megafauna.
Epoch Churchill, 7 x 48 The geological time the Cro-Magnon lived through: the Upper Paleolithic, the late Pleistocene. The age in which our culture began.
Slobberknocker Gran Figurado, 7½ x 56 The fight word, applied to a Cro-Magnon. A reminder that a heavy, solid, strong people would have been formidable in any contest.
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